Emergent Wins $63M BARDA Contract for Cyanide Antidote Spray Device

Emergent BioSolutions said today it won an approximately $63 million contract from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) toward developing an antidote spray device for treating known or suspected acute cyanide poisoning.The single-use intranasal spray device will be intended for use by first responders and medical personnel to deliver a stabilized form of isoamyl nitrite (SIAN) following a cyanide incident.“The development of the intranasal SIAN device will exp